“Zhmena”, promise in Pashtun. That was the word that several Taliban leaders used earlier this year in Oslo, in negotiations with Western countries, to ensure that as soon as the school year began in Afghanistan, girls could go back to school, American Thomas West recently recalled. , representative of the special State Department for that country, in an interview with the New York Times magazine.
“We are not against education,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, explaining that if only boys had been allowed to return to classes from the 7th grade the previous fall, it was “a matter of capacity. ”. All that was needed was to prepare the schools for the segregation imposed by the regime, boys on one side, girls on the other.
A year after the reinstatement of the Taliban regime in the country and almost five months after the start of the new Afghan school year on March 23, this “zhmena” is known to have broken. He will not have been the only one, the executive director of Amnesty in Portugal recently warned. “Everything that the Taliban promised the international community that they were not going to do, they are doing,” accused Pedro Neto, warning of the need for the international community to look again at what is happening in Afghanistan, away from the media spotlight for the action of the passage of time and the war that broke out in the Ukraine in the meantime. “Civil and political rights, participation rights, life in society, especially for women and girls, have been the object of suffocating repression, which is ending the lives of women and girls, who are limited in their access to education and who are victims of forced marriages.”
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Source: Observadora
